Jon Christianson

I’ve spent 18 years working with people at the edges of themselves. Not because they’re broken, but because they’ve been living at a pace that leaves the most important things just out of reach.
I’m a therapist, author, and specialist in relational depth. My path here wasn’t a straight one — occupational therapy, mental health, writing, years of sitting with people across very different settings and disciplines. But underneath all of it, the same question kept surfacing: what does it take for someone to truly feel seen?
For a long time that question lived in individual work. Then I started noticing something. The people who struggled most weren’t just struggling alone. They were struggling in the space between themselves and the person closest to them. The love was there. But the depth wasn’t.
That’s how I ended up here.
Why this retreat?
This is for couples who:

Have a good relationship, but feel something has quietly gotten buried under the pace of everything
Want more depth, more closeness, more of whatever it was that made this person feel like home
Have tried the holidays, the weekends away, maybe even therapy — and know something else is needed
Feel the desire to connect more deeply, but don’t quite know how to get there
Aren’t in crisis. Just curious about what’s still possible between them.

My approach
I don’t believe in scripts or structured exercises. I don’t hand you tools and send you home.
Instead, I create the conditions for something harder to manufacture and more lasting: two people genuinely seeing each other, perhaps for the first time in years.
I hold the space. You do the rest.
Eighteen years have taught me that the most important things between two people are rarely the ones being spoken out loud. My work is to create an environment where those things can finally surface — safely, naturally, and at your own pace.
A bit more about me
Beyond my work as a therapist, I’m an author and someone who has spent nearly two decades sitting with people in their most honest moments. That range — occupational therapy, mental health, relational depth, writing — is what makes this work different. It’s not one lens. It’s many, applied to one question: how do two people find their way back to each other?
I understand what it means to love someone and still feel a distance you can’t quite name. To want more without knowing what more looks like.
This retreat is built on:

18 years of therapeutic practice across mental health and relational depth
A method refined specifically to help couples access what ordinary life keeps just out of reach
Deep experience holding what surfaces when two people finally slow down together

Not just knowledge. Not just experience. Both.